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WordPress.com doesn’t have the best internal search engine, but I’m usually good about using the tags correctly. If you want to know more about Alaska and Alaska Natives, including Eskimo people, especially Yup’ik people of the Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak region, try using the categories in the sidebar or the site search tags at the bottom of each post.

The Nushagak River is in the Bristol Bay region (Dillingham is the hub. The link opens in a new window) from which Todd Palin’s family comes.

revised 2008-08-31 Because Gov. Palin has offered her credentials as commander of the National Guard, here is the category for related posts here– Eskimo Guard For those who have read several news stories quoting the Alaska Business Journal Monthly story, March 2007 (? looking for the original article), the end of 2006, on the Governor’s response to the Iraq surge, may be interested in this post, What impact will Iraq war call-up have from June 2006. State governors don’t usually have much involvement in US wars, and naturally would be more interested in state affairs. But this US war has called up our National Guardsmen.

revised 2008-09-04

“Alaska is on the map” is the recent slogan. Actually, Alaska has always been on the map. In fact, all over the map and maps. Click the category maps to find out where all we’ve been put now.

Sep-07-2008,Weekend Edition – Sunday…as his vice-presidential running mate, details of her career and family life have been scrutinized closely. Anchorage Daily News columnist Michael Carey has been following Palin since…

“As governor, Palin has been unable to separate her personal life from her professional life. Her attempt to have her former brother-in-law Trooper Wooten fired is now the subject of an investigation. On Tuesday, the Washington Post published a story with yet another example of her failure to establish boundaries between personal and professional matters. She insisted on using her home in Wasilla, not the governor’s mansion in Juneau, as her primary residence and, as a result, billed the state for the cost of more than 300 nights at home. She also had the state pay for her family’s travel.

The story suggests something else, something that has gone unstated but is disturbing nonetheless. Sarah Palin, apparently, did not sit down with bureaucrats or lawyers to determine the proper way to handle expenses for the time she was living at home and the time her family spends traveling.

Is Sarah Palin smart enough to be president? The Constitution does not mandate an IQ test. Nor does it prescribe how much experience in international affairs and domestic policy a candidate must have. Critics have been quick to demand: “What does she know about the world?” But an equally important question is: “What does she know about her own country?”

For most of Sarah Palin’s adult life, she has been what she says she is: a suburban mom. Now she is a candidate for vice president of the United States.

Michael Carey is a columnist for the Anchorage Daily News and the host of “Anchorage Edition,” a public affairs program broadcast throughout the state by Alaska Public Television, Inc.

Rural_Determination_summary_KARAC_meetingbook-FINAL-www.doi.gov (pdf file) The material below is taken from the regional advisory council packets. Sections related to rural determination have …Continue reading →